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From: sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com (Phillip McReynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: PS/2 Model 30 viedo Upgrade
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Date: 18 Nov 90 17:09:17 GMT
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amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:

>    The operative jargon here is MCGA, I thought it stood for MONO + CGA.
> Meaning it has limited Mono type VGA compatability and capabilities, but
> only CGA color capabilities.  Therefore, putting a color monitor on it
> will result in pc-5150 era graphocs compatability....
> al

This is incorrect.  MCGA is a VGA-style video mode which supports
320x200x256, other 320x200 video modes, 640x200x2, and 640x480x2.


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